# My Half-Assed Housekeeper Tip of the Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675 "2005-07-22T16:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/41 "2005-07-24T13:58:17Z")
Is someone volunteering to do my windows? I live pretty far up in a high-rise… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/42 "2005-07-24T15:24:24Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Sorry about yesterday’s post. Sounds kinda arrogant but it was meant to be smartassy. > > I’m not the best housekeeper but hubby and I are both pretty tidy. I can stand quite a bit of dirt but can’t handle clutter very well. My mom was a clutterbug so I think it must be a way to rebel. No worries. I’m the opposite - my house isn’t dirty, but there’s stuff everywhere. I don’t particularly like that, either, but I’m learning to live with it, because I don’t seem to be changing very fast. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/43 "2005-07-24T16:30:17Z")
Is it possible to have a horizontal suface that _doesn’t_ have stuff piled on it? I didn’t know that. What’s the point? Aren’t they stuff-holders? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/44 "2005-07-24T18:23:28Z")
No, they’re decorating opportunitites! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/45 "2005-07-24T18:36:27Z")
Whoa, **picunurse** , that is the story of my life. Too bad I am only 23. I will be a very entertaining grandmother, I am sure. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/46 "2005-07-24T20:53:33Z")
I go in cycles and right now I am in my this is how the Judds live. I even have a couch out on my front porch… I would far far rather do projects than maintenance. I just finished refinishing the porch swing (it’s a big porch)–but the stack o’ papers in here and on the DR table are breeding. I have no ambition or energy in summer. I blame the heat. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/47 "2005-07-27T02:57:24Z")
**picunurse** , that desribes me to a T. Only, with one small modification: I decide to wash my car, but instead realize I can sit on my ass and NOT wash my car, which will be much easier and lazier than washing my car. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675/48 "2005-07-27T04:32:57Z")
You can do almost every household cleaning task with vinegar or baking soda. Sink, toilets, windows (vinegar), tub, floor, and baking soda will even clean your teeth and sub for laundry detergent in a pinch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-half-assed-housekeeper-tip-of-the-day/313675.md?page=2)